“… there have been numerous indications before this that the resistance to the Assad regime is not made up of the democratic pluralists of mainstream media myth. Not surprisingly, that hasn’t stopped Barack Obama [from sending them weaponsand other material bought with your money].”

Despite the avalanche of information provided above exposing both the objectively evil motives behind and the unavoidable consequences of supporting the jihadist Syrian rebels in their Islamic war on Bashar al Assad (who, much like Saddam Hussein was, is more of a secular Muslim than a Qur’anic Islamist [it is no coincidence that they both were/are also leaders of their countries’ respective Baath political parties]) ASND would like to point out something which our President has elected not to mention (hmm…) — that there actually is one good reason to consider in support of attacking Assad’s Syria:

“In a chilling alliance that could turn conventional wisdom about the current Syria debate — and the revolution’s players — on its head, signs continue to mount that show al-Qaeda is working not against Bashar al-Assad but in concert with the dictator.”

“Whatever happened to the just war doctrine? While it may be good politics to want to go after the bad guy, but folks are acting as if the past decade never happened… Once again, our leaders and opinion elites are urging the use of military force without thinking about what happens after the ‘bad guy’ is gone.“

[Well, Chuck, back in 2002 you were among the many people who told us that going to war in Iraq WAS just — because, you said,SaddamHusseinhadWsMD .]

and…

“Syria is believed to have a substantial chemical weapons program, which includes mustard gas and sophisticated nerve agents, such as sarin gas, as well as biological weapons. Syria has also refused IAEA requests to make available facilities that were part of its nuclear weapons program and may still be in operation.“

“Our enemies align because of a shared belief that Islam commands them to fight us — something that would not disappear with Iran’s defeat. Iran is not the reason the United States is despised in the region, including in places where Iran is also despised. Iran is not the reason Afghan trainees shoot their American mentors. The reason is the interpretation of Islam predominant in the Middle East…

Commonsense statecraft would at least tacitly acknowledge that Islam is a problem. Our regnant bipartisan approach holds that Islam is the solution and that its sharia law must be enshrined in new constitutions. That this arrangement inevitably results in the persecution of religious minorities, apostates, and homosexuals never seems to provoke any rethinking of the arrangement — only the slandering of anyone who inconveniently points out that the arrangement is lunatic…

Nation-building in Islamic lands does not make us safer, its costs in blood and treasure are prohibitive, and it does not work because they don’t want what we’re offering. Our security does not hinge on their freedom; it hinges on their knowing that we are not to be trifled with. If they square off against each other, the best thing for us to do is stay out of the way. I am not going to worry about freedom and security in Syria when freedom and security in America are being stripped away. That is a direct consequence of enmeshing ourselves ever deeper in the Muslim morass. We should stop.”

“At a meeting of Syria’s opposition, Muslim Brotherhood officials gather round Marxists colleagues, nudging them to produce policy statements for the Syrian National Council, the main political group challenging President Bashar al-Assad.“

“One of the more loathsome horrors of Syria’s civil war has been the deliberate targeting of Syrian children by both pro-government and rebel forces, barbarity which includes imprisonment, rape, torture, sexual abuse, murder, and use as human shields.”

“In docking at Tartous in Syria, the Iranian warships also were at a port where the Russians recently have expanded facilities to accommodate their warships under an agreement with the al-Assad regime.“

“A regime change in Syria would almost certainly have negative effects on Christians, according to observers of the country’s political situation. The Syrian uprising is ‘not about ‘democracy’ as the West knows it,’ wrote Elisabeth Kendal in the Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin. ‘It is about restoring [Sunni Muslim domination], Arab hegemony and the Islamic order to Syria.'”

“Syrian President Basher Assad isn’t the only target of Syrian rebels as Syria’s Orthodox Christian Church reports ‘ongoing ethnic cleansing of Christians’ by al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant groups in the embattled Syrian city of Homs.“

“Syrian forces Thursday shelled the central region of Houla where more than 100 people were massacred last week as a Syrian rebel commander says his forces will abandon a cease-fire agreement by Friday if government attacks do not stop.“

“U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said United Nations observers were shot at while trying to reach the site of a new mass killing where the opposition claims regime forces slaughtered at least 78 people including women and children.“